Jordan has asked the United Nations to force Israel to hand over a significant portion of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of some 900 ancient religious texts unearthed in the 1940s and 1950s, Army Radio reported on Wednesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon issued a special statement of apology Tuesday night for his treatment of Turkish ambassador to Israel Ahmet Oguz Celikkol on Monday. Ayalon had delivered a rebuke to Celikkol regarding an anti-Israeli television show in Turkey.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon faced harsh criticism from inside his Israel Beiteinu party on Tuesday, a day after the evening news broadcasts showed him scolding Turkish Ambassador Oguz Celikkol in a way that Ayalon's critics called humiliating.
At the request of the Palestinian Authority, an Islamic scholar published a fatwa on Tuesday banning Muslims from digging or working in tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit asserted on Tuesday evening that Egypt insists on the establishment of independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital, Egyptian media reported.
After the botched terror plot of the "Christmas underwear bomber," David Harris took to the Huffington Post to argue that the United States had something to learn from Israel's stellar record in airport security.
Israel plans to release its official response to South African jurist Richard Goldstone's UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict in two weeks, the Hebrew-language daily Ma'ariv reported on Tuesday.
John Demjanjuk's lawyer made a new attempt Tuesday to halt the 89-year-old's trial on charges that he was an accessory to the murder of thousands of Jews at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp.
